The US government has announced a phased drawdown of PEPFAR funding for South Africa, citing concerns over Afrikaner protection and unmet policy requests.
The US government has announced a phased drawdown of PEPFAR funding for South Africa, citing concerns over Afrikaner protection and unmet policy requests.
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta met in Angola on Wednesday amid a surge in tensions triggered by militia violence in eastern Congo. Tshisekedi and Biruta were received at a hotel in the capital Luanda by Angolan President Joao Lourenco, acting as a mediator between the two neighbours, an AFP correspondent saw.
Authorities in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday took down and relocated a statue of a controversial German colonial officer following pressure from local activists. The monument commemorated Curt von Francois, a German army commissioner who has been credited with founding Windhoek -- something local campaigners and historians dispute.
On the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, clashes between machete-wielding gangs have left at least one dead, highlighting chronic crime problems that have rung alarm bells in Paris.
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